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development of multilingual administrative forms, intercultural communication, etc. The project will also include tutoring with a team of external professionals (a cultural mediator, an educator and a psychologist), to support teachers’ communications with the family and, in particular, the development of appropriate individualised educational plans when necessary. Teachers will also benefit from in-service training activities related to intercultural education. Finally, the school will activate a series of workshops for the students, in order to provide linguistic support to newly arrived students and promote cultural exchanges and diversity. In Salemi, the Istituto Comprensivo Statale G. Garibaldi – G. Paolo II (pre-primary, primary and lower-secondary school) is carrying out similar training activities in intercultural education for teaching staff. Students will also be offered artistic workshops (60 hours in total) focusing on body language through mime, music, theatre, and photography as well as a visit to a theatre in Palermo. A video will be produced to disseminate the outcomes of the project and a final performance with all participating students will be organised. In Trapani, the CPIA will develop training activities for teachers and organise introductory professional training workshops in electricity and cooking for migrant students completing the first cycle (lower secondary certificate). Such initiatives, by building bridges with upper-secondary State institutes, will create an incentive for students who are close to finishing the lower secondary level to continue their education at upper-secondary level. In these workshops, participants will be given a theoretical and practical introduction to each programme, become familiar with the new structure, and interact with teachers and students. The training modules and materials developed in these three projects will be made available on the IRASE online learning platform71 and a national seminar will be organised to present the outcomes of the projects and disseminate good practices concerning refugees’ education. The three main Italian union confederations - UIL, Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori (CISL) and Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) - are also developing broader activities in the field of international migration. It is worth noting that, in 2016, on World Refugee Day, the three unions issued a joint statement on unaccompanied minors72, urging European and Italian authorities to establish “humanitarian corridors” and offer these minors protection and integration opportunities.
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http://online.irasenazionale.it/course/index.php (Accessed on 28 April 2017)
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Cgil Cisl Uil: dare un futuro ai minori non accompagnati (2016, June 20). Retrieved from http://www.uil.it/NewsSX.asp?ID_ News=6865&Provenienza=1 (Accessed on 28 April 2017)